Q&A: What the consolidation of the SIEM market means for IT
Over the last several months, multiple security information and event management (SIEM) platforms have either merged or been acquired. LogRhythm merged with Exabeam, Palo Alto Networks acquired IBM’s QRadar portfolio, and Cisco acquired Splunk. To talk about why this is happening and what it all means, Chas Clawson, field CTO at Sumo Logic, joined the … continue reading
Siren – ITOps Times Open Source Project of the Week
In an effort to help maintainers of open source projects combat security threats, the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) has created a mailing list called Siren to enable sharing of information about vulnerabilities. “While consumers and enterprises may have intelligence sharing structures in place, this does not always extend to the upstream open source community. … continue reading
ScienceLogic announces integration with Cisco Intersight
ScienceLogic has announced that its AIOps platform now integrates with Cisco’s data center management solution, Cisco Intersight, which enables customers to easily monitor their Cisco servers. This is one of many updates the company has announced to its platform. It also announced support for OAuth 2.0 for several ServiceNow SyncPacks, which are files that contain … continue reading
Q-Day prepping: What businesses can do now to address quantum security risks
If you’re of a certain vintage, you’ll remember Y2K – the disaster-that-wasn’t because organizations around the world carefully prepared for what could have been a catastrophic disruption to digital systems. As quantum computing technology matures, we’re primed to face another Y2K-like event: Q-Day, meaning the point at which quantum computers become capable of breaking traditional … continue reading
Solo.io releases Gloo AI Gateway
Application networking company Solo.io today is releasing Gloo AI Gateway, designed to accelerate AI innovation. “AI Gateway is the most significant new trend in the API management and API gateway space,” said Idit Levine, CEO and founder of Solo.io, in the announcement. “As customers continue to adopt AI, we’re providing the ability to leverage Gloo … continue reading
New Relic DEM provides insights that help companies improve user experience
New Relic is releasing a Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) solution to enable companies to improve performance and user experience across mobile, web, and AI apps. New Relic DEM offers real user monitoring (RUM), which provides visibility into all user interactions across web and mobile platforms. Companies can use this information to identify bottlenecks and optimize … continue reading
Achieving Proper Data Governance by Training Centrally; Inferring Locally; and Protecting Data Everywhere
After devoting much of 2023 to AI pilots and experiments following the debut of ChatGPT and GenAI, AI-minded organizations are now working to scale their AI initiatives to capitalize on their early but limited successes. Their goal? To integrate advanced AI capabilities across their operations for greater efficiency, innovation, and competitiveness. An April KPMG survey found that … continue reading
Mirantis Introduces OpenStack for Kubernetes
Mirantis, providing organizations with total control over their strategic infrastructure using open-source software, today announced the release of Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes (MOSK) 24.2 with an exclusive dynamic resource balancer feature that automates workload distribution to solve hotspot and “noisy neighbor” problems. Now, MOSK automatically redistributes workloads within a cluster helping to balance resource consumption to prevent … continue reading
Microsoft Entra gets several improvements in July update
Microsoft has announced a number of updates to its identity and access management (IAM) solution, Microsoft Entra. The company is starting to roll out user experience updates to the Microsoft Authenticator app. The app will soon categorize key actions, such as credentials configured in the app, additional sign-in methods, and account management options. Microsoft is … continue reading
Cloudflare users can now block AI bots, scrapers, and crawlers by changing one setting
Cloudflare has added a new option in its settings to help its customers easily block AI bots, scrapers, and crawlers with a single click. Companies building generative AI models use web scrapers to get content to train their models with. “Google reportedly paid $60 million a year to license Reddit’s user generated content, Scarlett Johansson … continue reading
IBM and Microsoft partner to help companies modernize security operations
IBM and Microsoft have announced a new partnership designed to help companies modernize their security operations and protect themselves from cloud identity threats. To help companies be better protected against cloud identity threats, the two companies created a new offering based on IBM Consulting’s automation, accelerators, and industry domain knowledge and the Microsoft Entra suite … continue reading
Q&A: Bad bots and their impact across the internet
Bots are becoming more and more of a challenge for companies to deal with. To learn more about how bots impact different industries, we spoke with Nick Rieniets, field CTO of Kasada, on the most recent episode of our podcast Get With IT. They had recently released a report on this topic, so we invited … continue reading
AWS adds ability to group Amazon WorkSpaces virtual desktops into pools of similar users
AWS has just announced that customers can now create pools, or groups, of non-persistent virtual desktops through Amazon WorkSpaces. These pools can then be shared across a group of users, and each user in a pool gets the same applications and experience. According to AWS, users can access the virtual desktops via a browser, desktop … continue reading
Chrome will no longer trust certificates from Entrust starting in November
In a move to strengthen user privacy and security in Chrome, Google has announced that new certificates from the certificate authority (CA) company, Entrust, will no longer be trusted, starting in November. Google cited a “pattern of compliance failures, unmet improvement commitments, and the absence of tangible, measurable progress in response to publicly disclosed incident … continue reading
